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I take no credit for writing this. I found it at: www.medicmadness.com If Chuck Norris was a Paramedic March 20, 2010 Posted by Sean If you have never heard of Chuck Norris, then you have been living under a rock with no daytime cable. From the “Delta Force” to “Walker Texas Ranger”, he has shown the world that he is one certified badass. Now today we are going to talk about what happens when you take Chuck Norris from the role of kicking ass to saving lives. So now the big question…… What kind of Paramedic would Chuck Norris be? Shifts Chuck Norris doesn’t work shifts. He tells people when they are allowed to have emergencies. This is done around his busy schedule. At no time will he be tied down to scheduled hours. Scene Safety We all know the “Texas Ranger” doesn’t need to cleared to a scene. As a matter of fact, he prefers to live life on the edge. The more dangerous the scene, the better. My guess is law enforcement wouldn’t be dispatched to any of his calls. Response Chuck Norris doesn’t respond to calls. The calls respond to him. When he gives the OK to have an emergency, patients will make their way to his location. He can’t be bothered with driving and trying to find peoples homes. Vehicle Chuck Norris doesn’t need a vehicle to respond in, as he doesn’t respond. Patient’s seeking his services must provide their own form of transportation. Partner Come on now…..we all know Chuck Norris works alone! Equipment Chuck Norris doesn’t need medical gear, tools or medications. Disease processes quiver at the very sight of Chuck Norris and have no choice but to immediately comply to his demands. Patients suffering from trauma usually got their injuries as a result of a Chuck Norris beating. There isn’t much treatment that can be done to improve their condition anyway. You can’t end a post about Chuck Norris without including some old Chuck Norris facts….. Here are some health/medical related Chuck Norris facts that I found for your reading pleasure! The leading causes of death in the United States are 1. Heart disease 2. Chuck Norris 3. Cancer TNT was originally developed by Chuck Norris to cure indigestion Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn’t foolish enough to attack him. Chuck Norris doesn’t get frost bite. Chuck Norris bites frost. Chuck Norris’ tears can cure cancer. The only problem is, Chuck Norris doesn’t cry.

Hello, I am looking for documentaries about EMS. I've done many internet searches but have found virtually nothing. "Level Zero" was really the only one I managed to stumble upon, but it was short and not very in-depth. If anyone has information about or links to EMS documentaries, I would appreciate it.

I can't say I have seen the show but in residency I did have an attending who was a little full of himself. Whenever he would sucessfully intubate a pt he would flex and "kiss the guns, baby." Just to throw the thread off topic a little further, CSI Miami has sucked from the beginning (only reason to watch it is the bikinis and even they may not overcome the patheticness of Horatio). CSI Vegas was great but has now jumped the shark. Every case on each episode is somehow linked to every other case on the show. Come on now. As a New Yorker I have a special love for CSI-NY but even that is getting too much for me. Imagine the City of New York could afford some of the crap they get to play with on that show (if it were even to exist).

True, but I think your missing my point about the fundamental focus of the paramedic vs nursing undergraduate education, which was really my original point. Most of those skills listed their are quite advanced and are not predominantly things that graduate nurses do. I keep saying, I'm not having a go at nurses and people list skills and talk about how wonderful nurses are. I concede that I was unaware of the extent of the scope of advanced practice nurses in some settings, however, that is not terribly relevant to my main point which was basically if you are looking for an affective way to educate prehospital professionals, the best way to do that is begin with prehospital qualification, because of the specific skill set required. I happily agree that good ICU/ED nurses would make great paramedics, but as I said, to require prehospital professional to be great ICU nurses before they can step onto an ambulance is an overly round about and unnecessarily long pathway to EMS (with the corollary being that a nursing undergraduate degree by itself is by no means equivalent or superior to a paramedic degree when it comes to prehospital care, which is a common argument in the states where the prehospital qualifications are inferior, and I wanted to provide a picture of a system where that was not the case). Some of the things I said "dissing" the average grad nurse was my attempt to explain to the Americans that a BSN in Australia is not equivalent to an American BSN which is a higher qualification as far as I can tell. Of course not, but to be far I didn't really suggest that. I have obviously touched on the a nerve that many nurses and paramedics have (students like me included) that involves raising ones temper when people assume a much lower level of practice that you actually have. It appears some of what I have said has been the equivalent of calling you an ambulance driver, and I do apologise for not being more familiar with the extent of higher levels of nursing practice. However, again, this was not fundamental to my point about the fundamentals of the undergrad education. Also, importantly, I often make a point of the fact that I'm a student. I don't claim to be coming from a position of any particular expertise and my point was primarily about something that I am familiar with, which is the nature of the paramedic and nursing undergrad education. I do however, maintain that almost every nurse, some of them quite highly qualified and experienced, that are now doing my degree have said that it is a much different ball game - that it is much harder than they thought when its all on them and them alone, especially without the support structure of the hospital. You can take or leave my undereducated and under-experienced opinion, but that is a pretty common sentiment from people who have actually made the switch. I was also on placement with two experienced paramedics, who were originally ICU nurses and wanted to return to nursing, who were complaining angrily of the re-certification requirement on the grounds that they do more as paramedics than they ever could do as nurse. So I feel my opinions are not totally baseless, but your're right, I know very little about the nursing field, but I never really said I did beyond the graduate component. No it isn't. But I can see how you would think that looking back on some of my posts. I apologise for my obtuse use of language and broad generalizations. Yes it is that way in America, but things are a little different here. I take your's and Vent's point about a false sense of autonomy, but I do think that depending on the extent to which you are willing to defend your decisions, we have more autonomy here than perhaps you realise. I think the point here is the difference between guidelines and protocols, while some here argue the difference is only the name, others feel that they can basically do whatever they want if they can justify it, and that is different to a lot of American systems, which is what you appear to describe. I don't of course want to start a pissing match about who can do more because it is evident that, one, I already did that without intending to and I don't want to continue it, and two, I obviously don't know enough about nursing to do it. What I will say however, is that I think the above paragraph shows a bit of a misunderstanding about some of the aspects of a lot of Australian paramedic practice. I don't know your background, so I obviously can't say for sure, but the above does sound like an odd interpretation of Australian practice if you are aware of its specifics, so I'd like to humbly and tentatively suggest the possibility that you may be more unfamiliar with modern paramedic practice here than you realise. Forgive me if I have misinterpreted your words, and that you are actually the CEO of Ambulance Victoria, which could be somewhat embarrassing on my part . Midwives absolutely do not need to be nurses first - http://www.med.monas....au/bmidwifery/ I can see that I have offended you and, as I said, I do apologise. I was wrong about a number of points but I also think you misinterpreted the main point of my post perhaps because of its inadvertently offensive nature....This feels familiar . Oh and the creatures remark...I just assumed that all health care professionals ate noisily from horse troughs and made abhorrent noises and gestures when displeased. Is that not the case of nurses?

You're not helping! Take that!

JCicco345, Please keep your LOL negative comments LOL to yourself, there is no need LOL for you to be negative LOL towards someone. They were only trying LOL to share their LOL experiences with everyone. I for one had no problem LOL reading the post. I guess some people LOL just are inconsiderate idots LOL. JCicco345, by the way: LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Hey why dont you LOL give me some money for every LOL I put in my post. LOL Anyway, I've only been in EMS for a couple of years, but I would have to say the most weirdest place was in a full nude strip club in the downtown region. Guy started a bar fight and everyone else joined in including some of the strippers. In the end, there were 3 stirippers knocked into a coma, the guy who started it had 3 open skull fractures from broken beer bottles and a flail segment. 3 other people were treated and transported for other injuries. It was funny to read in the news papers and hear it on the radio, medic's 18, 1 and 2 respond second, third and fourth units to assault at yadda yadda yadda. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Three key point can sum up my best call ever/most awkward call * Stripper with chest pain * Still Topless *Dancing kept on going I love this job

Geez....I was able to understand his post.

I dont know about you, but I wouldn't want someone unable to type so that I can understand it, to respond to an MVA/medical emergency that I was involved in. You shouldn't have to take time to re read something just to be able to comprehend what it is saying, unless the vocabulary is dense. This, by the way, is coming from a 17 year old, so it's not like I'm some bitter old man sitting at home. I couldn't understand his post either.